[Gllug] Production system - Linux 2.4.24, LVM and cciss

[Rickey Costas]

Tethys wrote:

> Rickey Costas writes:
> 
> 
>>>I have exactly the same problem with FreeBSD and its ports system. 
>>>Maintaining one server is fine, maintaining over 50 is a real PITA. 
>>>Especially when we don't have/want compilers on each machine.
>>
>>Why dont you build packages on a small set of servers, and install those 
>>packages on the other servers ?
> 
> 
> Because I don't have the time it would take to build the packages. I want
> my distribution vendor to have done that for me, so I have a simple binary
> I can install. Like Martin, I don't have a compiler installed on my live
> machines, so there *has* to be a separate compile server. But the existence
> of a separate machine for it doesn't mean that there are enough people to
> actually do the work.

Why not automate the building of the packages ? It would take what, half 
a hour to setup ?
Yes, if you dont want a compiler on the machine, then you do have to 
have another machine doing the compiling. But once the package is built, 
you can install it on several machines without a compiler.

Also, I fairly hate having packages built for me. They never have the 
options I need, or the optimisations I'd like.

I'm not trolling, I'm trying to work out if people are upset at having 
to use freebsd, or if there is a genuine problem.

Rickey.



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